How much revenue did Amnesia: The Dark Descent make?

$12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Amnesia: The Dark Descent sell?

Q: How many copies did Amnesia: The Dark Descent sell?

2.3M to 3.7M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.7M; $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.3M before the cut; from 36k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Amnesia: The Dark Descent out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.6M–11.4M

best case 51.0M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent

The middle of these games

≈ 9.6M–11.4M copies

≈ $57.7M–$134.6M after Steam's cut

from ~276k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.8M–63.1M copies, ≈ $213.5M–$574.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Team-Based + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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